7 ways to know if acupuncture is “working”? 🤔
How do I know the acupuncture is “working”?
Where to begin?!
During your treatment, here are some things to watch for.
They all indicate that the needles are doing their job. 🎉
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📍Acupuncture chill — You feel a chill rushing over you even though you’re fully dressed and have a blanket or sweater on. This is your sympathetic nervous system (SNS) shutting down and your parasympathetic nervous system (PNS) chiming in to get the healing party started.
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📍Tears — Yup, tears. For no reason at all your eyes might start to water. Again, this is your SNS shutting down and your PNS turning on!
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📍Sleep or feeling like you’re asleep — You may be able to hear noises around you but they sound far in the distance.
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📍Time passes quickly.
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📍Your limbs jump and “wake you up” — Hello nervous systems doing their jobs!
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📍You’re snoring — When you wake yourself up with a shnarful (yes, a patient has said this word), you know it’s working! (A personal favorite of ours.)
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📍Pain level drops — If your pain drops from a 9 to a 3 out of 10 before we even get all the needles in, you know you’re cookin’.
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